Grim Fandango/Characters: Difference between revisions

=== '''Manuel "Manny" Calavera''' ===

The hero of the game, a salesman in the Department of Death. He'd point out that he's technically a travel agent, selling travel packages to the dead depending on how good they were in life, but the job is functionally identical to being [[The Grim Reaper]]. Manny has to work off his moral debt to advance further into the afterlife, but he can only do that by selling good packages to good souls, and for some reason, all his latest customers don't qualify. Suspecting that he'll be stuck in his crappy job forever, Manny grows increasingly miserable and desperate, finally stealing one of Domino Hurley's files... and stumbling upon a conspiracy.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]:

* [[Determinator]]: Manny's ultra-competitive, and even [[Lampshadeslampshade]]s it in Year One, and he's chasing after a woman he only met once and can't forget. (Olivia calls him a "chump" for it.).

* [[Don't Fear the Reaper]]: It's just his job. Manny doesn't fit traditional expectations of [[The Grim Reaper]] much - them being along the lines of forbidding, laconic, and tall. Instead, Manny's charming, sarcastic, happy to talk his way into or out of trouble, and... short. Really ''really'' short. He wears lifts on his shoes under the cloak. [[The Reveal]] of this in the intro is probably one of the funnier sight gags in adventure gaming history.

* [[Self-Made Man]]: In less then a year, he elevates from a janitor in a run-down club to the owner of said club, which he turns into the second most successful joint in the town, and then from a galley worker on a shaggy old tub to a captain of a sterling liner.

=== '''Mercedes "Meche" Colomar''' ===

Manny's [[Love Interest]] and the catalyst of the game's events; her file was the one Manny stole. Meche is obviously a good, gentle person deserving a first-class travel package... which is why Manny is baffled when she seemingly qualifies for nothing better than a long walk.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: She starts out as a kind, sweet soul who gracefully accepts what she assumes to be a just punishment... except that it's ''not'', and things get worse for her from there. By Chapter 3, she's suffered horribly and become profoundly bitter, especially towards Manny.

'''Meche''': It's wherever you guys put my skin! }}

=== '''Glottis''' ===

* [[The Big Guy]]: ''Huge.''.

=== '''Salvador Limones''' ===

Leader of a rebel movement against the villains, one of Manny's main allies. Salvador was once a Reaper and a salesman like Manny, and like Manny, discovered that even his most deserving clients rarely qualified for anything. Unlike Manny, Salvador quit his job in order to create an underground movement and overthrow the Department of Death's corrupt leadership. {{spoiler|In the end, Salvador is revealed to have qualified for a Number Nine ticket rather than Reaperdom - like Meche, he was a saintly soul given an unjust punishment.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Cyanide Pill]]}}: {{spoiler|One that shoots Sproutella.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: He uses his Sproutella [[Cyanide Pill]] to kill Olivia and save Manuel; activating it naturally requires he be exposed to it to}}.

* [[Major Injury Underreaction]]: "''Hola'', Manuel." {{spoiler|This is what he says after being ''decapitated and smashed to pieces.''}}.

* [[Rebel Leader]]: Salvador is intensely charismatic, inspiring downright suicidal loyalty once he gets his revolution up and running. {{spoiler|It's implied his inherent nobility attracts his followers. He was, after all, a Number Nine ticket holder. And in the end, he proves as willing as his followers to die for the cause.}}.

=== '''Domino Hurley''' ===

* [[The Dragon]]: He's Hector's most reliable and competent underling.

* {{spoiler|[[Karmic Death]]}}: {{spoiler|Ground to pieces in a moment of inattention.}}.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: {{spoiler|Dropping Glottis over the edge of the world just because he didn't think he'd be useful. Glottis survived, but any player sympathy for Domino sure didn't.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Klingon Promotion]]}}: {{spoiler|After Don Copal gets sprouted in Chapter 1, Domino has a new position when he's encountered again in Chapter 3.}}.

=== '''Hector LeMans''' ===

The other villain, the head of the DoD. He has been stealing tickets from the deserving and selling them to richer, less saintly souls. {{spoiler|Or so he'd have them believe, but the tickets he sells are fake. He keeps the real ones for himself, determined to hoard enough to balance out his numerous and horrific misdeeds in life.}}.

* [[CompleteCorrupt MonsterCorporate Executive]]: Apparently while alive, he was a "very bad boy", and he didn't get any nicer when he died, {{spoiler|since he keeps a huge garden of flowers, including a greenhouse, grown from the remains of those he subjected to a [[Fate Worse Than Death]] in his rise to power. That the place is beautiful and well-tended somehow makes it more horrifying.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Hoist by His Own Petard]]}}: {{spoiler|That creepy flower garden? Including a greenhouse with a connecting water tank? Do you wonder what would happen if one, say, filled that tank with Sproutella while Hector was inside the greenhouse? We get a screaming Hectorposy is what happens.}}.

* [[Wicked Cultured]]: He loves flowers, and can be seen tending to them with a dinky watering can and hedge-clippers during the end-run. Subverted, however: Inin the Eighth Underworld, flowers are a symbol of death. It's less genuine love on his part and more polishing trophies taken from his victims.